January 30, 2021
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Train the Trainer report – Sweden – January 2021

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Beginning from 2021 there are some changes to Train the Trainer reports. The biggest of them being that the participating countries are from now on asked direct questions in order to make answering the report easier. The answers in this particular report are from member(s) of YOTA team Sweden

Main Questions:

How was the last summer in your country when it comes to youth work within ham radio? Did you come up with any new exciting ideas? 
The last summer was very empty. After NOTA had to be cancelled, the youth team decided to await the COVID development before planning more. And since it didn’t ease up. No activitites were done
How have your activities changed in the past six months? Have you been able to hold e.g. online events or activities within a smaller group of people?
No, although, for DYM we invited everybody to run from home and also all OM:s to join the event with children and grandchildren in the correct way. This was appreciated, but not as fun as usual, since we couldn’t meet.
What kind of activities and operating possibilities did you have during the recent December YOTA Month? How did your activities differ from last year, and how did people respond to them?
Usually, we would have three local camps in south, middle and north Sweden. This year, all amateurs were invited to join alone if they were in YOTA age, and with their children or grandchildren (they were all responsible to do this following the local COVID advisements). The response was not the greatest, but it was still appreciated amongst the participants

Other Questions:

What kind of problems are you facing with youth work in your member society?
Recruitment is still a big deal. Youngsters enjoy the hobby when trying but feel that the step to a license is too big. However, we hope to get a novice class, which would make this a lot easier!
Anything else that comes to your mind or you want to share?
I am personally very happy to see, that the YOTA community stays together even in those times. Watching the YOTA group chats give many laughs, and it’s nice to see all the messages about ham radio, projects and anything else. That warms the heart in a cold world!

 

 

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January 30, 2021
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Train the Trainer report – France – January 2021

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Beginning from 2021 there are some changes to Train the Trainer reports. The biggest of them being that the participating countries are from now on asked direct questions in order to make answering the report easier. The answers in this particular report are from member(s) of YOTA team France

 

Main Questions:

How was the last summer in your country when it comes to youth work within ham radio? Did you come up with any new exciting ideas? 
Everything has been down here. There was a plan to organize a YOTA WE, as well as maybe oganizing a contest WE. Difficulty came with C19. We had talk with the society about the group who is actually not growing for many reasons. We also had a talk about representativity of the youth from France in the hobby by me with a notice of maybe a lack of it especially with some different views and intersts. It can be hard to find ourselves in a “deadlock” way.
How have your activities changed in the past six months? Have you been able to hold e.g. online events or activities within a smaller group of people?
We kept being active online with talks and many exchanges about how to develop and promote our hobby towards the youth sphere.
What kind of activities and operating possibilities did you have during the recent December YOTA Month? How did your activities differ from last year, and how did people respond to them?
Activating a special call was mainly the goal of those interested in On Air fun. Unfortunately as a small group, in C19 restrictions time, with a limit of 15 days a month of special call possibility of activity, it was a light operation. I personnaly had a great time, few of us tried to be activ as well and I think they enjoyed their time. I had the chance to be apart of 9A0YOTA crew (thanks to 9A1TT!) as well who was such a nice experience to be on, especially during that lockdown period !

Other Questions:

What kind of problems are you facing with youth work in your member society?

15 “members” in the small group of YOTA F on the maybe 30 hams in F under the age of 26. The main difficulty is the non-adequacy between all the interests and the necessity of finding a representativ leader (wich I think I am beginning to not be).

Anything else that comes to your mind or you want to share?
Starting from nowhere is pretty hard, we keep trying!

 

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January 30, 2021
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Train the Trainer report – Norway – January 2021

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Beginning from 2021 there are some changes to Train the Trainer reports. The biggest of them being that the participating countries are from now on asked direct questions in order to make answering the report easier. The answers in this particular report are from member(s) of YOTA team Norway

 

Main Questions:

How was the last summer in your country when it comes to youth work within ham radio? Did you come up with any new exciting ideas? 
I myself (LB4IH) did not do much youth work, although some may have been organized by the groups.
How have your activities changed in the past six months? Have you been able to hold e.g. online events or activities within a smaller group of people?
I have not.
What kind of activities and operating possibilities did you have during the recent December YOTA Month? How did your activities differ from last year, and how did people respond to them?
I did not organize DYM in Norway this year.

Other Questions:

What kind of problems are you facing with youth work in your member society?
Getting more people involved, and getting the current people on the air.
Anything else that comes to your mind or you want to share?

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January 30, 2021
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Train the Trainer report – Czech Republic – January 2021

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Beginning from 2021 there are some changes to Train the Trainer reports. The biggest of them being that the participating countries are from now on asked direct questions in order to make answering the report easier. The answers in this particular report are from member(s) of YOTA team Czech Republic

 

Main Questions:

How was the last summer in your country when it comes to youth work within ham radio? Did you come up with any new exciting ideas? 

We didn’t really work with youth, however, we tried to work with kids and it went really well. Committee for Children and Youth held the first Kids On The Air (weekend) camp.

How have your activities changed in the past six months? Have you been able to hold e.g. online events or activities within a smaller group of people?
They hadn’t. In case there are only a few young ham radio operators we didn’t do anything special. Yes, we are in contact but mainly if there are things moving, it’s mainly during DYM.
What kind of activities and operating possibilities did you have during the recent December YOTA Month? How did your activities differ from last year, and how did people respond to them?
The tradition here in the Czech Republic is that we have been doing a small meeting during the DYM. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to do one because of the pandemic situation. Good thing is that they were some new faces calling under OL20YOTA this year.

Other Questions:

What kind of problems are you facing with youth work in your member society?
That there is a lack of young people between 15 – 25 years old. They are kinds (who hopefully will be our future youth) but not youth.
Anything else that comes to your mind or you want to share?

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January 30, 2021
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Train the Trainer report – Thailand – January 2021

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Beginning from 2021 there are some changes to Train the Trainer reports. The biggest of them being that the participating countries are from now on asked direct questions in order to make answering the report easier. The answers in this particular report are from member(s) of YOTA team Thailand

 

Main Questions:

How was the last summer in your country when it comes to youth work within ham radio? Did you come up with any new exciting ideas? 
We schedule to have our first IARU3 international YOTA in October 2020 but postponed it due to Covid-19.
How have your activities changed in the past six months? Have you been able to hold e.g. online events or activities within a smaller group of people?
Yes, Due to Covid-19 we encourage the members to draw their children and youth near the area to QSO from their station and provide accurate information about amateur radio.
What kind of activities and operating possibilities did you have during the recent December YOTA Month? How did your activities differ from last year, and how did people respond to them?
Receive ISS signal by a small youth group from Sirindhorn International Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering on 26 DEC 2020, this year we focus on satellite communication, they are fun and educational.

Other Questions:

What kind of problems are you facing with youth work in your member society?

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Anything else that comes to your mind or you want to share?

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January 30, 2021
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Train the Trainer report – Spain – January 2021

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Beginning from 2021 there are some changes to Train the Trainer reports. The biggest of them being that the participating countries are from now on asked direct questions in order to make answering the report easier. The answers in this particular report are from member(s) of YOTA team Spain

Main Questions:

How was the last summer in your country when it comes to youth work within ham radio? Did you come up with any new exciting ideas? 
In our case, the COVID-19 pandemic was very strong, and although in summer cases went down, most of the activities were cancelled, including a small camp planned for July.
How have your activities changed in the past six months? Have you been able to hold e.g. online events or activities within a smaller group of people?
As said before, COVID-19 is hitting strongly in Spain, and leisure meetings were very very limited, and now are not allowed (very few provinces maybe are allowed). Also, sadly, everyone from the youth commitee quitted in November. Online events seem to be a pretty good idea, so we may try something. We’ll see if we manage to get some people to participate.
What kind of activities and operating possibilities did you have during the recent December YOTA Month? How did your activities differ from last year, and how did people respond to them?

We usually had 2 callsigns on the air during DYM, this year we had only one, EF4YOTA. Interested people can get on the air if their parents or family have a license, from their personal station, or if the participants themselves have a callsign. In the case that any province could have leisure meetings, people would be able to get on the air with the radioclub station, but with the actual situation seems it was very difficult. Although this year I saw that more youngsters participated in this year’s DYM, so it’s good.

To sum up, this year was be very limited as only people which had relation with amateur radio were able to participate, but well at least we could be on the air.

Other Questions:

What kind of problems are you facing with youth work in your member society?
We have to see who wants to join to create a new youth commitee, as the other one quitted, but this is only a matter of time. We’ll see in the future how it develops.
Anything else that comes to your mind or you want to share?

Not for the moment

 

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January 30, 2021
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Train the Trainer report – Algeria – January 2021

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In 2021 there are some changes to Train the Trainer reports. The biggest of them being that the participating countries are from now on asked direct questions in order to make answering the report easier. The answers in this particular report are from member(s) of YOTA team Algeria.

Main Questions:

How was the last summer in your country when it comes to youth work within ham radio? Did you come up with any new exciting ideas?
We are currently trying the improve upon the skills of our youth, from ham operations to general technical knowledge (Electronics, Math, Physics…)
How have your activities changed in the past six months? Have you been able to hold e.g. online events or activities within a smaller group of people?

We had video conference calls with online courses as well as preparing for the certification exam online.

What kind of activities and operating possibilities did you have during the recent December YOTA Month? How did your activities differ from last year, and how did people respond to them?
It was quite a disastre as most radio clubs in Algeria were closed most of the time. We could however manage remote operation on the stations.

Other Questions:

What kind of problems are you facing with youth work in your member society?

Youngsters are really busy with their studies as there was a huge delay to start courses. Thus, they do not have time for a hobby these days.

Anything else that comes to your mind or you want to share?
Try and focus on the aspect of HamRadio that is of interest for the particular group of youngsters. Some might be more interested by data encoding than by radio operation. Diversity is a blessing!

 

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January 30, 2021
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Train the Trainer report – Germany – January 2021

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in 2021 there are some changes to Train the Trainer reports. The biggest of them being that the participating countries are from now on asked direct questions in order to make answering the report easier. The answers in this particular report are from member(s) of YOTA team Germany.

Main Questions:

How was the last summer in your country when it comes to youth work within ham radio? Did you come up with any new exciting ideas?

Due to the pandemic, many licence courses could no longer take place. We therefore set up our own video conferencing platform using BigBlueButton for our society, on which initially only licensing courses could take place and later – after further expansion of hardware resources – the meetings of the local clubs could be held online.

The advantage of hosting this system on our own is that we have no problems regarding GDPR and every incumbent can use it for free after authenticating with their member ID. For this purpose, we (DARC Youth department) have programmed a special website for the conference room administration, which can access the users and roles in the DARC members database.

A planned HAM first-semester course at the local university of applied sciences was converted into an online-course. Unfortunately, the practical part of the course was reduced. Only a small “trainee-contest” on UHF was performed (similar to the CQTU contest, https://dk0tu.de/contests/cqtu/), as this event was compatible to social distancing rules.
How have your activities changed in the past six months? Have you been able to hold e.g. online events or activities within a smaller group of people?
The operation of the video conferencing platform has kept us completely busy. But the effort is worth it, as courses and meetings of local clubs now take place every day. We have also started a seminar series where every 14 days there is a lecture on, for example, contesting or logbook programmes or how to operate measurement technology or do QSOs on QO-100 etc. that all members can attend online. Okay, it’s not just for the youth, but it’s cool.
What kind of activities and operating possibilities did you have during the recent December YOTA Month? How did your activities differ from last year, and how did people respond to them?

As we coordinate radio operations in DYM with an online calendar and chat group, there is little difference from last year. However, some participants could not use the club station as usual because they were closed due to the pandemic.

Nevertheless, we have welcomed new faces to the operator team this year, who have been very active in using the callsign DB0YOTA from home.

Other Questions:

What kind of problems are you facing with youth work in your member society?

We have ~982 local clubs. Some are very active and can adequately mentor young newcomers. Some have an average age of over 60 and need to be gradually rejuvenated before proper youth work can begin here. It makes no sense for a 16-year-old to come to a group of people who, to put it bluntly, only talk about their illnesses and the good old days of tube amplifiers.

Anything else that comes to your mind or you want to share?
Try to connect the young people as much as possible. We have seen during our YOTA Subregional Camp in 2019 that lots of youngsters don’t know each other even when they only live 20km apart. Therefore, we have established our own Telegram channel where we announce youth activities directly, as this information often does not reach the young people through official society channels (e.g. website or club newsletter).

 

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January 22, 2021
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SWL QSL Card Requests for DYM Activities now available

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Are you a short wave listener who listened to YOTA stations during one of the December YOTA Months since 2013?
We have good news for you! We have just opened up the opportunity on our website to request #SWL QSL cards easily.
Just fill out this form at https://events.ham-yota.com/qsl.

 

 

 

 

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January 15, 2021
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YOTA online – Session #9 “Recap: December YOTA Month 2020”

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Press Release by Youngsters On The Air
Thursday, 15.01.2021

Are you ready for our upcoming YOTA online session already?
Did you set your alarms to Thursday, 28.01.2021 – 1900 UTC?

In this newest episode the team will present the main topic “Recap: December YOTA Month 2020“. This time we will have our YOTA IT team speaking about their self-developed DYM website and its newest features as well as guests talking about their impressions on the 2020 activity. Furthermore, we will also have a special prize draw after you solved our new riddle live on the show. We will give away two more ICOM merch packages. So, stay tuned and be excited!

WHAT IS YOTA ONLINE?
The Youth Working Group within the IARU Region 1 created a new program called “YOTA online”. In these monthly gatherings we will try to bring the YOTA feeling towards the online community and spread the word that there is youth in ham radio. A YOTA team consisting of active youngsters will present different topics, while answering questions from the community. There will also be a section where different recent YOTA event hosts will be able to present the highlights, while also giving participants the opportunity to share stories. These sessions are also interesting if you want to learn more about organizing such amateur radio events for young people. This will be followed by a Q&A session with the group presenting. At the end of the event we will also do a prize raffle including a little riddle amongst all participants.


WHERE WILL IT BE HELD?
We will be streaming live again on our Youtube, Facebook and Twitch channels. Furthermore, we try to stream via the QO-100 geostationary satellite in DATV mode again.

Here are the links to our channels.
Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/hamyota
Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/hamyota
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/hamyota

QUESTIONS?
If you have questions while the event takes place do not hesitate to ask them.
Please keep in mind that we will be monitoring only the chats on Facebook, Youtube and Twitch while we are streaming live.
All other comments will be answered afterwards for sure.

RE-WATCH PREVIOUS EPISODES
If you missed earlier episodes or just want to watch a topic again it is very easy.
Just visit our Youtube Channel and select what you want to see.

We hope to welcome you on the show!

 

 

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